The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 100

Unfortunately, the new-comer was by nature spiteful and envious, and could not bear anyone to have better luck than himself.

Who acts: new comer · What happens: be, not bear, have · To what, where: anyone, better luck

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new comer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	_	9 nature	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Unfortunately	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 comer	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 comer	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 new	punct
6	comer	comer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nature	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 nature	cop
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 nature	case
9	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	spiteful	spiteful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nature	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 envious	cc
12	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 spiteful	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bear	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bear	cc
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 bear	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 bear	advmod
17	bear	bear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 nature	parataxis
18	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 bear	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 have	mark
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 bear	xcomp
21	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 luck	amod
22	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
23	than	than	ADP	_	24 himself	case
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 luck	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 nature	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the new comer		by nature; unfortunately property	tree rules
2	not bear	could		anyone		tree rules
3	have	to-infinitive		better luck	than king	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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